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THE american Magazine for December
opens with frontispice, THE Boy Christ
Among the Doctors" which is followed by
an article on Christ Ideals in American
| Art" by w. II Ingersoll, with twelve Illus
trations from the original works of as many
artists. Christmas i'm the Grand Army"
and " Walton's Christmas Gift are also
significant Of the Christmas-tde. An in
teresting illustrated article by u, Il. White
is Natural Gas in Findlay." The other
! articles in this NUMBER are I" Salmon Fish
ing on the Cascapedia" "a Chat with the
Good Gray Poet walt Whitmanl "The
Silver Reiquary," and The Love Story of
Miles Standish." The last contains an old
ballad from the New York ROcer, which APP
peared in 1862, founded on the love and
courtship of Standsh In Timely Topics
Rev. T. w. Jones of Saratoga, Welshnan
by birth, tells how he puzzled Slade, the
Spiritualist, with Welsh slate message.
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| Froebe. Translated from the German and
annotated by w. n. Halmann, AM. New
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"Ihe Shah and His C,utb" by Wolf vos
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Shah of Persia in the lgl0 OF an aVariciOl5
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s. good poems